BACON!!!

[muckefuck]

Courtesy of princeofcairo, but dedicated to aadroma.

3. Bacon (MEAT & FISH*)

I will never be a vegetarian, if we are to pretend that such things exist, for one simple reason: I could never rob myself of the chance to enjoy the most delicious food in the world. Indeed, bacon seems to be the hardest meat to give up, and the thing most likely to lure vegetarians back to civilisation. The smell is like man-nip. The appearance, whether it's fleshy pink back bacon, verging on cannibalism, or ruddy rippling streaky bacon with its trim of crispy fat, is always mouth-watering. But the taste! If God exists, he is made of bacon. I do not believe that there has ever been a single moment of a single day when I have not wanted bacon.

(For the complete list of--I'm really not making this up--"Best British Foods", clikest thou here.)

Comments

[foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com]

If God is made of bacon, how come those nasty little white things they give out at Mass are so tasteless? Really, if communion wafers were bacon the world would be Catholic.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

That would be #37 on the list of "Top 101 Mysteries of the Faith"--coming soon to an LJ near you!

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

What wine goes best with Bacon? We're on a quest here.

[bunj.livejournal.com]

I think the whine which goes best with Bacon is:

"Frrraaaanncisss, why aren't you a famous playwright like Will Shakespeare?"

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

What a wise man, to put The Marvellous Nectar as #1.

[grahamwest.livejournal.com]

The specificity of it is important. Lemon tea, herbal tea, green tea, iced tea - these are but pretenders to the throne.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Indeed: herbal tea even hides behind an assumed name, being, of course, simply a tisane.

[princeofcairo.livejournal.com]

[H]erbal tea even hides behind an assumed name, being, of course, simply a tisane.

To quote the immortal Mr. Chris Isaak, it's wrong to love you like I do.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Nice series of posts -- thanks for the pointer. I'm surprised tablet wound up as low as #32....

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm amazed marmite made it on the list at all much less broke the top ten.

Mmm, baaaaaaaaaaaacon

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Wait, I've been frying up God and eating Him all this time?!?

Mmmm, sacrelicious~~

Dominus vobiscum, dufus!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Sacrilegious? What kind of crazy talk is that? I grew up eating God all the time!

Re: Dominus vobiscum, dufus!

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Well YOU might have; this is rather new to me, thank you ^_-

[madknits.livejournal.com]

I found your journal from a friend's.

I am a vegetarian, and I'm kosher. If I were ever to go back to eating meat, it wouldn't be because of bacon. Not my fave. Never was, never will be.

By the bye, human flesh, when offered for consumption, is known as "long pork" and sometimes I wonder if the supposed similarities in taste are what caused the early Hebrews to ban pork. Or, conversely, if God is made of bacon, that might be the reason Jews are forbidden bacon. (bemused grin)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

That friend wouldn't happen to be dakoopst, would it?

Personally, I think the traditional Hebrew pork ban was due entirely to the miserable state of hog husbandry in the Ancient Near East. Fortunately we now live in far more efficient and enlightened times.

[madknits.livejournal.com]

Could have been dakoopst.

I can't remember any other culture banning pork in the ANC. I'll have to look into it.

The ancient British and Irish Celts were major pork eaters, and there are all sorts of references to it in the Mabinogion.